VP debate moderator Gwen Ifill is releasing a pro-Obama book
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In the tank.
Not the typical “hands tied behind back” but “hands cut off” for the GOP candidate.
Well at least we know the road Sarah Palin has to travel will continue to be steadily uphill.
The title of the book was known months ago.
Just let me ask, where CAN Sarah Palin get a fair shake, according to you guys? Is it limited to Sean Hannity and Hugh Hewitt?
RichmondDem, Please answer my question :
“when did she disclose her book to the Commission on Presidential Debates ?”
When she was asked to be moderator, they research that stuff.
Barack Obama attended debates with known, out-and-out Clinton partisan George Stephanopoulos as the moderator. But he didn’t moan about it.
So, who do you want to be moderator of the debate? Katie Couric is unfair. Charlie Gibson is unfair. Is there anyone who is not a right wing commentator that would be “fair” according to you?
I don’t watch Inside Edition but a friend sent me this link. It sounds like vintage Biden with his exagerations and blathering at the mouth. If this is true, and it is easily researched to see if he did in fact say that the man driving the tractor trailer that killed his wife and daughter was drunk (not true), he is a pig.
http://www.insideedition.com/storyprint.aspx?SpecialReportID=2126
RichmondDem, Wrong answer. You cannot back up your earlier assertion can you ?
George Stephanopoulos had no financial stake in the debate outcome did he ?
If Obama wins, she hits the lottery, if he loses, well she just publishes another book.
I see no reason why Jim Lehrer can’t do it. You have never heard ME say Couric and Gibson were unfair have you ?
All these unsupportable assertions, when I was younger, we called that talking out of your ass.
RD, You don’t know if she disclosed the book deal, I’d like to see proof. It doesn’t matter anyways, Palin is debating so why are you still talking about this?
“George Stephanopoulos had no financial stake in the debate outcome did he”
Uh, he was Clinton’s campaign communications director in 1992 and on the shortlist for Hillary’s Press Secretary.
I never heard you say it, no, but I’ve heard a lot of wingnut bellyaching about it.
Can you prove to me that the CPD (and the McCain campaign!) never heard about the book until yesterday? Face it, you guys have a crappy VP candidate who is about to get shellacked, and you’re preempting by working the refs. It’s so incredibly transparent it’s almost comical. If you had Huckabee or Romeny you wouldn’t be doing this right now.
RD, you are asking me to back up an assertion you made ? Do your own homework..
Hillary had a short list ? Even before she was nominated ? righhhtt..
You’re right, Dans. It will be all the moderator’s fault tomorrow when Palin loses. Nothing to do with the fact that Palin is the worst VP candidate of modern times and totally unprepared for the national stage. Nothing at all to do with that. It will be because Gwen gwen Ifill wrote a book that the McCain campaign didn’t find out about until two days before the debate, even though it was announced in July.
Yeah. Good luck with that, guys!
“Hillary had a short list ? Even before she was nominated ? righhhtt..”
Come on, man. It’s Hillary. 
so the repub strategy now is to smear the journalist before they even ask qualin a question? sad. maybe they’ll even cancel the debate. keeping sinking those expectations as low as you can.
el, dropping out of a debate is pretty chicken shit, I write about that in that in 44, check it out..
Yes, I agree. It would be like the Democrat nominees refusing to debate on Fox. Oh, wait a minute….
a pause…did a light just come on? did the obama campaign questioning the ethics of fox journalists because o’reilly asked him questions? no. and i’m guessing it’s still dark in there…
Eyeful should still recuse herself. If she does not, she should give a disclaimer in her opening remarks, saying that she has written a book favorable to O’Bama, and thus she has a financial stake in the outcome of the debate.
el jefe — I understand the laziness that impedes your use of capitalization, but could you find it within yourself to at least use complete sentences?
ooo, correcting grammar, you and poli should team up. is that a white flag?
Not correcting grammar so much as requesting that you at least use the language properly enough to make yourself understood. It is difficult to understand you when what should be a clause has no verb.
While you are trying to play grammar cop jack, how about trying to spell the presidential candidates’ names correctly?
It is difficult to understand why you would throw in a ” ‘ ” on a name which has none, unless you are trying to speak redneck.
It’s a joke. I know you leftists have no sense of humor, but I thought you would at least get the joke — O’Bama has Irish blood.
Ifill admits she did NOT tell the debate commission that she was writing her book. Dishonesty is no surprise here, as I said before, Ifill has never impressed me and her comments on Palin during the RNC Convention were enough to disqualify her.
Let the debate begin.
Excellent piece of satire from NRO:
http://article.nationalreview.com/?q=ZmU3YzIyZDU1ZTM2OTc1MTI0Mzc3Njc3ODFmYzZjNWY=#more
America speaks – AOL poll :
Should Ifill moderate the debate?
No 67%
Yes 33%
Please don’t call me a spammer, but this is too good not to share, Biden Gaffe video and it even has the “Chuck” quote in there:
America speaks – AOL poll :
Should Ifill moderate the debate?
No 67%
Yes 33%
Again, another winning issue the McCain Campaign fumbles away.
Democrats and their allies in the media are playing hard ball the McCain continues to play bean bag.
Please forgive me, but this is very good, Gwen Ifill’s brilliant baby cousin is too much!
cmac, thanks for the link in 71.
“When she was asked to be moderator, they research that stuff.”
Makes one wonder what other stuff they don’t research now doesn’t it ?
jack, if it irritates you, i promise to keep to it. and, if referring to obama as “o’bama” is joke, then the fact dems don’t find that funny suggests a superior sense of humor.
jefe,
Tell Kiddin’ to take your place at commenting. At least he made no sense in an articulate way. Have him train you over dinner and while housecleaning. You may eventually catch on!
America speaks on a freakin’ AOL internet vote as much as you like poll?
A bit of a reach to say the least. Totally laughable from where I’m sitting. Ask any AOL employee- their political posters tend to be way right of center. Most of America left AOL behind with their dial-up service.
Grow some balls people- own your candidates and stop making excuses for why the campaigns are tanking.
act, what are you talking about? your comment makes no sense and that fact has little to do with the grammar.
i think that repubs and mccain want to keep ifill in there anyway. she can be a scapegoat and she also keeps the expectations on qualin low. that’s the game with her now; portray the media as out to get this poor, small town girl ahead of time so that any gaffe she makes looks like it was the result of an unfair attack by a liberal media. but i also think the dems should be careful tonight, i would bet she does way better in the debate than anyone anticipates.
Gwen did a nice job, credit where it’s due.
An interesting debate. I give Biden a slight edge on the night, though I think Sarah did what she needed to keep the campaign alive.
WaPo ran a live fact check during the debate. Kinda makes you wonder why we bother having them if the candidates are going to make crap up half the night.
http://voices.washingtonpost.com/fact-checker/?hpid=topnews?hpid=topnews
Ah, Burkenator, me lad, you showed your true colors very quickly. The two of us couldn’t even get past page one of a political discussion before you started throwing out both the personal insults and the false assumptions, i.e., “Your party…” No point in trying to debate with you under those circumstances. Too bad. If you are really into the personal insult thing, you might want to try something called the “ant-bvbl” blog. They thrive on it over there. Cheerio, Mate! See you at the barricades!
Burkenator, I re-read your earlier comments and could no longer refrain from responding. My party is quasi-religious in its nature now? True believers that will follow without question or doubt?
Do those two comments not describe the current version of the party you support? Which party has young adherents who go around chanting “Hope and Change” and for the most part have no real clue as to what that really means for their own futures and the future of their country? Which party has loyalists who train their unknowing children to sing or chant hymns of praise to the party’s standard bearer, a political technique common to virtually every tyranny of the past 100 years? Which party has rabid adherents who lure the young into falsifying voter registrations (ACORN in Nevada) by emphasizing that the end justifies the means? Which party has a nominee who advises his followers to “get in the face” of the opposition and reluctant voters?
Quasi-religious? Perhaps. But I think that “induced fanaticism” might be a more apt description for the current Dem campaign — not your party necessarily, just the 2008 manifestation of it.
Now, Burkenator, I am addressing this to you with all due respect. I suspect that you may NOT be one of those who truly believes or actually participates in all that political nonsense. However, if I am correct in my belief, my Democrat friend, this could put you in the dangerous territory of condoning the actions of those who do take advantage of the “useful idiots” (Lenin’s words, not mine) to gain their political ends.
I say the following without having the least bit of knowledge about your personal background but I do think you might benefit from the same sort of “education” that some of us have been obliged to witness in our careers. Go live and work in country where the political techniques I have described above are a way of life. You need to witness firsthand how youthful exhuberance is controlled and channeled by Machiavellianism and eventually led down that sad road on which loss of personal freedom; mental and physical coercion; and, eventually, violence and even death are the inevitable way stations.
It is a way of finally understanding how the Hitler Youth started out marching in the streets and singing the praises of the “Vaderland” and its “Glorious Leader” and then wound up at age 14 or 15 shattered by death while trying to defend the Seigfried Line against a vast army of hardened veteran soldiers. The fact of “Naziism” has nothing to do with this argument, and I am by no means trying to tag anyone with that hideous label. I am only trying to point out the too frequent natural progression of a pernicious political tactic —the intentional misuse of the minds of the young. Somewhere on this blog you can find my story of “Charlie”, a bright and talented young man whose spirit and future were destroyed by this very thing. It is a dangerous tactic, not to be viewed lightly.
You need to see that the current situation in Zimbabwe, for instance, did not happen overnight. It begins with the seeds…with the establishment of a popular “cause”, usually a valid one that can be easily understood by all. It proceeds to slogans and activism and then to children singing and marching. It moves most certainly toward “worship” of the single leader.
And then, when some begin to express doubts about the path being followed, one sees the advent of the disciplinary cadres, the goon squads, who, in the name of the leader and his philosophy, brook no wavering. Deviation becomes “shame and disloyalty” Continued deviation leads to physical coercion and the stuffing of the ballot boxes. Eventually the inheritance of that system is political violence of the worst kind. I have seen this firshand many times in my life, and I can tell you that it is not a pleasant sight.
Burkenator, you are a self-professed adherent of a storied political party which has had an honored place in American history. That party gave us Wilson, FDR, Truman, and JFK. That party led the American people in two of the greatest military victories in history, the World Wars. That party kept innumerable peoples of every ethnic type from living under terrible tyranny. That party understood both leadership and the absolute necessity of a truly “Loyal Opposition” in a free country.
Please explain to me why now, at a point when all of us together face a huge battle against a terrorist movement sworn to effect our disappearance from the stage of history, this same storied party would start to adopt some of the very political tactics that have marked every tyranny which the party itself has been instrumental in abolishing. The enemies of America are out there. They’re not here. And yet, I now get the sense that the “guns” of your party are aimed at me as some kind of evil viper who should have no role in the future unless I grovel in the dust at the feet of your current leader. I, who truly spent a lifetime actually defending you, regardless of political afiliation, now hear myself being called a racist, a gun nut, a crazy Christian, a right wing kook, as if I have no moral right to be in political opposition. Burkenator, my friend, this has to stop — on both sides. I have seen what happens when it does not. You DO NOT want to see that. America has been a great nation, but this nation is not immune.
Wolverine,
Eloquent. Rational. Logical. Truthful. Bravo!
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